BOY ADMITS HE LED TUCKAHOE ROBBERY; Fired Shot Which Is Expected to Cause Death of the Bank Director. THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASY He and Companions Had Crime in Mind for a Month, He Confesses at Hearing.

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March 15, 1925,

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CAPE MAY COURT HOUSES, March 14. -- Which several hundred spectators in the quaint, white-walled courtroom listened today, a 19-year-old youth declared he had engineered the hold-up of the Tuckahoe National Bank yesterday morning, admitted sheeting a director, who is expected to die, and beating the cashier and his wife with a piece of iron pipe wrapped with insulating tape.

March 15, 1925

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